Exiting only port 80

[Ringo Kamens]

This is a really good idea if your assumptions are true because much
of the network lag is caused by other services.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 4/30/07, Mike Cardwell <tor at lists.grepular.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am I right in thinking that most people use Tor for web browsing, over
> ports 80 and 443? And am I right in thinking that most of tors bandwidth
> is used up by a minority of users, using services that require much
> higher amounts of bandwidth, such as ptp traffic? These are just guesses,
> but I couldn't find any data about how much traffic Tor is pushing over
> various ports, and would appreciate being pointed in the direction of
> it if it exists!
>
> If I am right, wouldn't the majority of the tor user base be better
> served if a collection of exit nodes only exited port 80 and 443
> traffic? Does that have privacy implications? I initially thought
> I should configure up my node to exit all traffic except for certain
> ports, but after giving it more thought, it seemed the wider network
> would be better off having more available http/https traffic.
>
> Mike
>